Hurt

One Friday afternoon, after a long day of school I had to go to basketball practice to get ready for regionals. Everything was going good, pretty normal practice. Our coach wanted us to get our conditioning in so he had us run some patchies. A patchy is like a suicide, which is when you run to the free throw line, turn around and sprint back, then run to the half court line and run back, and so on. But instead of turning around and running back to the line you ran backwards to the line. While…

“Aly we’re in Alabama, almost to Dauphin Island.” My dad mentioned as he was driving. “Yay!” I shouted as he drove on, “I can already smell the salt in the ocean it’s like I can taste it! I can see the waves and hear them crashing against each other!” 15 minutes later my dad said “We’re here!” When we got in our beach house we waited for our friends to get there and we walked straight to the beach because it was right across the street. We got to the beach and laid down our stuff I laid down on…

For example, Richard Kuklinski was not taught empathy and he became a serial killer. He claimed to have killed more than 100 people but less than 200. Every human being who has empathy might ask why he did the things he did. Or how was he able to hurt so many people and not feel a thing. The answer is he was not taught empathy therefore he did not feel emotions towards others. Richard lived a brutal childhood and by the age of 10 he began to show pathological behavior. His father was an…

humble. He told he loved me , I haven't heard those words in a long time and it felt good to hear it. I left the jail house with my eyes bloodshot red feeling hurt for my dad. On the way home it was quiet. We arrived at the house and I looked at my mom and said with a smile “the storm is finally over.” Nothing hurts more than a man who hurts women or children whether by his action or by his words. Having to love a father that was suppose to protect you from anything turns against you one day is…

In the book The Hidden Life of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, I have discovered that humans aren’t the only species that can have feelings towards another human. Dogs can too. They can have feelings towards each other. “Both he and Maria knew something was terribly wrong when his owners came for him the last time, so that Maria struggled to follow him out the door. When she was prevented, she rushed to the windowseat and, with her back to the room, watched Misha being forced into a car. She…

Constantly being hurt by someone, not feeling complete because the lack of love. In the song “Bleeding Love”, Lewis creates comfort with her reader by indicating how she been hurt by her past relationships and many end up avoiding love by becoming immune to the pain that it cause. It can also relate to being emotionally hurt repeatedly by their current lover, “Closed off from love / I didn’t need the pain / Once or twice…

the kids who work day and night to achieve their dreams of playing a varsity sport at their high school. Kids can benefit from playing sports by having better relationships and exhibiting personal growth. While it is true that young athletes can get hurt from playing sports, the positive impacts sports can have on a kid is too great to take away. First of all, it is shown that athletes have better relationships from playing sports. They make better friends, have closer ties to the school, and…

St. Benedict’s Prep is a college preparatory school located in Newark, New Jersey. The school is an all male school thats serves grades grade seven to twelve. This school is unique and known for its catchy slogan “Whatever Hurts My Brother Hurts Me.” This school is ran by a student government. St. Benedict's Prep is a student centered school, where majority of the seniors make the rules and try to regulate and control the schools everyday activities and programs. This school is very different…

Lies are not usually things that we mean to reveille and uncover; and with time the truth almost always comes out. And even though you might be afraid to tell someone the truth right then and there because you are afraid of hurting them they will hurt worse in the end knowing that you lied to them. So next time you think about telling a lie think twice about what that person means to…

The first practice I didn’t have a clue on what I was doing, when we lined up for hitting drills I thought it would be fun but little did I know how much it hurt; however, this didn’t take my love for the sport away. On the days that we didn’t have practice I would ask my dad for help on my technique. We would go to the park and I would put on my pads, my dad had bought me a dummy hitting pad, he would hold…